Love Is The Only Way: The Truest Form

By James Robert Pendleton

Finding Orthodoxy took me Forty-Two years; it was a time of self-discovery, joining the Navy, trying my hand at Chinese Medicine, moving to Indianapolis from Daytona Beach; where I married and was blessed with a beautiful daughter. But wait, I am getting ahead of myself: I was born into the Mormon Church with my Grandfather being an elder of the local church in Fallon NV. Every time we set a date for me and my sister's baptism into the Church, I was never baptized Mormon. When I joined the Navy, my bunk mates provided ample reasons for me to join an interdenominational Church in Virginia Beach; I was also going to the local Calgary Assembly of God Church. I never really felt whole and stopped going to Church; It wasn't until I found Christ in the Greek and Antiochian Churches in Indianapolis that I truly felt I belonged; I am now going to a Greek Orthodox Church in Texas and I know that I am home.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Proisle Publishing Services
• Release date: Aug 29, 2023
• ISBN: 9781961526068

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Foreword

What’s lost in our World today are collectively: Love, Hope, Faith and Charity: who are personified in the four daughters of Saint Sophia.

Being cynical is easy. However to believe in and see something without seeing: to hear without hearing; to love without being loved; to have the faith to move mountains¹ and give everything of yourself, to accept the chaos that’s in life, all is nearly impossible without the aid of a Higher Power (God). Who gives us the paddles to Navigate and guide us through the waters on our Chosen Path. God provides our Moral Compass" to know what is right and wrong. In His Word, we can find solace.

Without our Higher Power’s (my God’s) help, we jump from crisis to crisis and run experiments with People’s lives by not using or respecting the knowledge we gain through science; we end up hurting the very ones we profess to love.

Having sight to see is a privilege granted to me by my Loving God the Father Almighty; with Faith to move mountains, granted to me by my Loving God, the Son, Jesus Christ the only begotten; hearing the voices of the many as breathed into me by my loving God the Holy Spirit the Lord and Giver of Life.

Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy, Lord, Lord have mercy, Lord Jesus Christ Son of God have mercy on me a Sinner!

In His Word we find Solace; In His Word we find Hope; In His Word we find Love

The Word was in the beginning and the Word was with God and the Word Is God²

—James R Pendleton

Love, the ONLY Just and Holy War

Unknown Author

Love is the only just and holy war: Two friends pledging loyal opposition to one another. I vow that I will defend the integrity of my being, we will met only as equals; I will present myself to you in the fullness of my being and will expect the same of you. I will not cower, apologize or condescend. Our covenant will be to love one another justly and powerfully; to establish and cherish inviolable boundaries; to respect our separate sanctuaries. We will remain joined in the sweet agony of dialogue the contest of conversation, the dialect of love until we arrive at a synthesis.

For Love We Will Always Know

April 24, 1992

As I hold my friend so tight

I feel our energies flow

I never want to break our grip

I don’t ever want to let you go

As I look into your eyes

I see a beautiful soul

As I look into my own

A reflection never to go

The pain and anger that once I felt

Are slowly, slowly gone

This, the Fruits of Our Labor

The Seeds that Friendship Sow

Together as we walk and grow

Forever in our hearts

We shall never be alone

For Love We Will Always Know

The Love That Heals

October 2, 1992

Our love is the love which is built on trust

Never to chip, peel, breakaway or rust

Our love we feel with all our might

Is centered on the love of the love that is right

The love we knew at the edge of our pond

Is the love we knew which sealed our bond

Our love will be whatever it may

So strong our love that we won’t us betray

Our love is the knowing that we know we can

The Strongest Love, this Love of Man

Together Forever as we learn to feel

Our Love is the most Powerful Love that Heals

Together Forever

October 5, 1992

Together Forever we’ll always be

Two hearts joined for all to see

Open your heart and fully receive

The love we know our truth to be

Our love brings to